(FOX40.COM) \u2014 All charges against celebrity chef Adam Pechal have been dropped due to “insufficient evidence,” Sacramento County prosecutors confirmed Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n
Pechal was arrested and booked for felony domestic violence after the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office received a call Wednesday night from his partner. Sgt. Edward Igoe said the woman told deputies Pechal had physically assaulted her.<\/p>\n
However, the Sacramento County District Attorney’s Office declined to file any charges against Pechal after reviewing the case, a prosecutor told FOX40.<\/p>\n
Sonia Martinez Satchell, an assistant chief deputy district attorney, said in an email that “it was determined there was insufficient evidence to prove the case beyond a reasonable doubt.”<\/p>\n
Read more: Adam Pechal, Sacramento celebrity chef, arrested for domestic violence<\/a><\/p>\n Pechal came to fame in 2013 when he appeared on Season 1 of ABC’s “The Taste,” a cooking competition show hosted by the late Anthony Bourdain.<\/p>\n Locally, Pechal was known as the chef behind Tuli Bistro and Restaurant Thir13en, now-closed restaurants in Midtown and Downtown Sacramento. Most recently, he created the menu for Local Flights LLC, a new restaurant<\/a> in the Sacramento International Airport.<\/p>\n